Edit: I forgot to mention in the first post that this is Chatham-Kent-Essex PC candidate Rick NichollsIn a letter in the editor of the Chatham Daily News on Febuary 27, 2008, this is what now Hudak PC candidate for Chatham-Kent-Essex had to say about m…
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Generally counsel must request a “Gladue report”
R. v. Oakoak, 2011 NUCA 4, a recent decision of the Nunavut Court of Appeal, emphasizes that counsel have a duty to ensure that all sentencing information is before the Court. If a presentence report is needed it should be requested. The Court notes:
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Continue readingA Novelist's Mind: Lilian Nattel Online: Should I Combine 2 Blogs?
Okay friends, I’d like your input. After just starting Canlit Rocks, I’m wondering if I am biting off more than I can chew (especially with a still broken wisdom tooth!). What would you advise: should I combine that blog with this one or ke…
Continue readingFunding Anti-Green Sock Puppets
Not all unions are in McGuinty’s pocket. The Ontario Power Workers’ Union (UPW) has bankrolled a campaign agaisnt McGuinty fighting the Green Energy Act.More and more, marketing companies are using social media to promote their clients. UPW is pushing …
Continue readingThe Adventures of Diva Rachel: Two Strikes Against Paul Dewar, NDP Leadership hopeful
First, The Diva laughed out loud when the Ottawa Citizen cover story came out on Sunday stating that Dipper MP Dewar's thirst for political leadership came from God.
Yes, you read right. Dewar says God asked him to run. The Divine Intervention mus…
Continue readingBlunt Objects: Projections for Manitoba 2011
Manitoba’s election is utterly down the wire – but it’s pretty much looking like yet another term for the Manitoba NDP and Premier Greg Selinger, who’s running his first election.I’ve taken the time to project the race results for today’s election, and…
Continue readingCalgaryGrit: Alison Redford’s First Mistake
Alison Redford is seen to have won the Alberta PC leadership on a policy-heavy campaign. She promised change, so one would imagine she’s eager to get going and introduce herself to voters through a bold agenda.After all, here’s what she said after winn…
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: A Buffoon’s Progress
Lawrence Martin writes, in today’s Globe and Mail, that:If you were picking the most valuable player on Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s front bench, you wouldn’t be far off in pointing to John Baird, the Foreign Affairs Minister.Baird, writes Marti…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: The Mug’s Game
Trying to predict seat counts based on a limited number of publicly available polls is – as PEI demonstrates – a mug's game, at best. The final tally: 22 Liberals and five Conservatives, compared to 24 Grits, two Tories and one vacancy at diss…
Continue readingWise Law Blog: 140 Law – Legal Headlines for October 04, 2011
Here are today’s leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter:
The importance of being civil – Canadian Lawyer Magazine -http://goo.gl/2yx6b
Bill C-11: Commentary Round-Up (10.03.11) – http://goo.gl/8nBCv
Ontario PCs grilled over flyer ca…
Dead Wild Roses: Freezing Children for God – The Immorality of Religion Hits Home.
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be a believer? To put the mythology before reality, place higher regard for fiction over fact? This clip shows a ‘man on the street’ interviewer with a desperately poor couple, begging for money in front of a big box retailer. The interviewer offers them $20 […]
Politics and its Discontents: When Police Chiefs Go Rogue
In a frightening, bald, and very public display of how much of a politician he has become, Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair has announced that he is no longer taking direction from the Police Services Board, as required by law, but is instead trying to …
Continue readingMcGuinty – He said it, then didn’t do it…
McGuinty say lots of things and doesn’t always manage to do the things he says he will or won’t do, as we all know. This from the Toronto Star today….
On Sept. 5, 2003, low in the polls, Dalton McGuinty took the main campaign plank from the NDP and…
Far and Wide: Trending Liberal
Yesterday, we saw conflicting polls, but that divergence has quickly evaporated, as the new Nanos suddenly looks a lot like the earlier EKOS, while the new EKOS shows further widening of the Liberal lead. In a nutshell, two big pollsters are showing a …
Continue readingTrashy's World: Ontario projection… just for the hell of it…
Yeah, yeah… I and everyone else was off base last time when all of we so-called “pundits” tried to pick the outcome of the May 2 election. And I have learned my lesson and won’t do it again. …. NOT! I love trying to predict outcomes of elections! Back in the old days (before May […]
Continue readingHarper: The Private Members Bill Puppet Master
Doesn’t it seem too much of a coincidence that upon the resumption of the new session of parliament all these new private members bills are coming from his back benches? Certainly there have been private members bills before but usually they are …
Continue readingImpolitical: A self-induced recession
An item at the Economist that is making the rounds conveys a quite frustrating aspect of the economic situation in Europe and the U.S.: “A self-induced recession”YOU know, if it weren’t for the politicians, the economy would have a fighting chance….B…
Continue readinggritchik: When politics turns ugly
The distribution of these flyers was disgusting – gutter politics in the truest sense of the definition – and the most desperate political tactic I have witnessed in a long, long time. Yesterday, because of these flyers, I donated to EGALE Canada and asked that they direct the money toward Ontario. If you feel similarly, […]
The Skwib: The Laser Equipped Autonomous Robotic Vacuum
(from the 2037 Hammacher Schlemmer Glaven catalog) This is the robotic vacuum that navigates autonomously through your home up to seven times per week, where it can either clean your floors or patrol for intruders. The unit’s specially designed dual, counter-rotating agitator brushes spread carpet fibers and enable the vacuum to remove hair and other […]
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